20 Highly Recommended Dividend Challengers To Buy

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Dividend Challengers are stocks with a history of consecutive rising dividends of more than 5 years but less than 10 years. If you believe this is a criterion only fulfilled by a few companies, you are right. There are only 113 stocks with such a dividend growth history.

Dividend growth is very important for your retirement funds. If you buy several of the best dividend growth shares, you could double your passive income from dividend in ten years easily. Over twenty years, your dividends should quadruple.

Smart investors like you are always looking for simple stock trade ideas of highly recommended stocks. I like to combine both criteria. I screened all Dividend Challengers by the best rating notes from brokerage firms. In order to eliminate the risks of lower capitalized stocks, the market capitalization should be over $2 billion.

Take a closer look at the full list. The average P/E ratio amounts to 20.15 and forward P/E ratio is 18.91. The dividend yield has a value of 3.64 percent. Price to book ratio is 2.72 and price to sales ratio 2.16. The operating margin amounts to 14.43 percent. The average stock has a debt to equity ratio of 0.98.